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Researching the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
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THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF 18TH CENTURY LOUISBOURG 
Microfiche Report Series 83, By Margaret Fortier, 1983, Fortress of Louisbourg


Part One - Louisbourg - The Land and its Utilization, Louisbourg Properties


 Properties - Louisbourg Environs

167. François Le Coutre de Bourville - Jean Baptiste Mozel - Antoine Morin

LOCATION: 

where 2 streams join to flow from northwest to Barachois de Gene

DATE OF CONCESSION: 

1721

DATE OF OCCUPATION:

SIZE OF PROPERTY: 

1,200 toises x 1,500 toises

BORDERS OF PROPERTY: 

north - De Gene
south - land not conceded
east - land not conceded
west - land not conceded

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

CHANGES OF OWNERSHIP: 

1744 - sold to Mozel
1751 - Mozel sold to Morin for 1,200 livres

DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: 

1744 - Bourville cleared the land, built a cabane and established a menagerie.

OTHER INFORMATION: 

1752 

- Morin rented the property to Catherine Dinan and her children for 5 years. He
promised to build a lodging for them as well as barns and stables for livestock. He agreed
also to furnish livestock and poultry from which they would share the offspring. She
was to choose a spot for a garden from which she would get the produce. In addition, all
products (wood, grain, etc.) would be split between owner and tenants. All hay was to be
retained for Morin who would provide the seeds necessary for growing various kinds of grain.
Morin recieved first option to buy Dinan's share of the property's produce.

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